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one of my favourites from Frederic Chopin...
played on Roland RD-170 stage piano

Frederic Chopin Nocturne cis moll

Edvard Grieg - The Holberg Suite: V. Rigaudon

Wagner  to Franz Liszt:

"Never in my life having enjoyed the true happiness of love I shall erect a memorial to this loveliest of all dreams in which, from the first to the last, love shall, for once, find utter repletion. I have devised in my mind a Tristan und Isolde, the simplest, yet most full-blooded musical conception imaginable, and with the ‘black flag’ that waves at the end I shall cover myself over – to die"

Richard Wagner - Tristan und Isolde, Prelude

Richard Wagner - La Obertura De Rienzi

Tristan, Isolde (2009)
for 2 pianos
NOTES ABOUT THE INTERPRETATION
This piece was composed in celebration of the Akademie Schloss
Solitude’s 20th year anniversary, to be premiered as part of a
series of miniatures all beginning and ending with the “Tristan”
chord from Wagner’s opera.
In the pedalling indications, which are marked with a gradually
upward-slanting line, it is intended that each player depress the
pedal before playing a new chord, and then gradually release it over
about 3 seconds whilst sustaining the written pitches with fingers,
thus creating an exaggerated (but smooth) diminuendo.
The Da Capo return to the initial chord should not be treated in any
special manner, rather it should be played exactly as all the
others, without any fermata or exaggerated fade-out.
Should a special intonation of the pianos be desired, the two sharp
notes may be lowered somewhat to approach a pure minor triad with
the B-natural, and the F may be raised to make a 45/32 ratio with
the B. However, it is not necessary that the two pianos be tuned
identically or precisely, some differences of shading between them
may even be desirable.
Berlin, 4 August 2009

Tristan, Isolde (2009)

Chopin - Nocturne Number 1 Opus 9

Tristan & Isolde, opening of the third act
transcribed for piano by Jeromos Kamphuis
Leo Svirsky, piano

Richard Wagner: Tristan & Isolde

Schubert - Serenade "Leise Flehen Meine Lieder"

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Steinway artist, Chad Lawson, decided Chopin needed a new introduction.  Along with violinist Judy Kang (Lady Gaga, Ryuichi Sakamoto) and cellist Rubin Kodheli (Kanye West, Norah Jones), Lawson has arranged ten Chopin works into a minimalist landscape.

It's a risk editing the "poet of the piano" but one that Chopin would be proud of.  

Taking 10 Chopin works, Lawson decided to scale the works down to a minimalist setting.  "I knew even if bare-bones, Chopin's works could still be as spellbinding as the original compositions we are so familiar with." says the pianist.  

Produced by Chad Lawson & Alejandro Clavijo. Mixed by Stephen Lee Price.  Mastered by Michael Graves of Osiris Studios (Atlanta, GA).

Chopin Nocturne in F Minor-Op. 55, No 1 (Variation) Piano, Violin, Cello - Chad Lawson

Johann Strauss II - Tritsch Tratsch Polka

Richard Wagner - Faust Overture

Das Rheingold

Das Rheingold, Opera: Act II

Sean Redrow, Senior Recital (encore), St. Joseph Chapel, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.http://www.taylorandboody.com/opus_pages/opus_09/organ_photo_gallery.html

'Hornpipe' from the Water Music - George Frideric Handel

Franz Von Suppé - Poet and Peasant Overture

live recording from the Franz Liszt Academy Budapest

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Richard Wagner/ Die Meistersinger Prelude
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic
Walter Morales, conductor
October 15, 2004
Great Hall of the College of Fine Arts
Carnegie Mellon University
Oakland, Pittsburgh

Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger Prelude

Hans Günther Wagener - Der Traum an die Sommernacht

Richard Wagner- Parsifal.VBR

The Sussex Symphony Orchestra - live recordings from the orchestra based in Brighton, UK.  

http://www.ssomusic.co.uk

Mascagni - Intermezzo from Cavelleria Rusticana

Aufgenommen vom Bayerischen Rundfunk am 29.09.2012 im Großen Saal der Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg anläßlich des Festkonzertes zum 30 jährigen Jubiläum des Richard-Wagner-Verbandes Würzburg. 

Es spielt das Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin unter der Leitung von Donald Runnicles.

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Ehsan Karimi